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He said he decided to spare some
because they ‘looked quite young’, while others he beckoned towards him
with reassuring words before clinically executing them.

Breivik showed no emotion as he told
the court of walking around the island for 90 minutes firing at his
targets – most of them teenagers – before surrendering.

He said: ‘I just lost control of how
many people I have been shooting. I am not concentrating really...I am
barely able to function.

‘That is why I remember very few persons in Utoya.’

Lack of remorse: The 33-year-old holds a jug of water on the fifth day of his trial, at which he warned that his testimony would be 'horrendous'

Outspoken: Breivik (seated centre on Friday) has admitted the crimes but says he carried them out in self-defence

Earlier, Breivik told the court that
he carried out his Utoya island massacre – which was ‘Plan B’ – only
because he felt his bomb attack on an Oslo Government district building
had been a failure.

Eight people died in the city centre blast.

He insisted that he was ‘sane’ but
conceded that what he had done was ‘gruesome’, adding: ‘ I cannot
comprehend the suffering I have caused.’

Breivik admits 77 killings but has
pleaded not guilty to criminal charges because he believes his victims
betrayed Norway by embracing immigration.

Asked to tell an Oslo court of the
moment he headed for the island to carry out his massacre, Breivik said:
'I have to warn you that some of my descriptions will be horrendous.'

He also revealed the doubts that tormented his mind before he opened fire.

'My whole body tried to revolt when I
took the weapon in my hand,' he said. 'There were 100 voices in may
head saying "Don't do it, don't do it!"'

Massacre: Police and rescuers recover the last remaining bodies from Utoya and the surrounding waters three days after the shootings on July 22 last year

Horrific memories: Mourners pay their respects next to flowers and Norwegian flags left in honour of those killed in the days after the killings

Many of his victims were 'completely paralysed' and stood 'totally still' as he fired the shots that ended their lives.

'This is something they never show on TV,' he added. 'It was very strange.'

The 33-year-old far-right extremist
told how he boarded a ferry to the island on July 22 last year after
planting a bomb that killed eight people in Oslo.

Dressed in a police uniform, he told
the ‘matriarch’ of the island, Monica Bosei, and several security men
that he had come because of the attack on the mainland.

As they walked in front of him, he began his killing spree.

As his words rolled out, survivors
and victims' relatives hugged and sobbed, trying to comfort each other
as Breivik spoke of his ‘targets’ running in all directions when they
finally realised what was happening.

That
testimony was also broadcast to 17 other courtrooms in Norway where
others affected by the attacks were gathered, but was not carried live
on Norwegian television.

Chilling: Breivik said his whole body 'tried to revolt' when he took the weapon in his hand before embarking on his rampage, which left his victims 'paralysed with fear and begging for their lives'

He told the court: 'I thought this is
now or never. I was walking with my rifle and pistol in my hand. I
either had to let myself be arrested now or I had to carry out what I
had planned.

'And that minute that it lasted seemed like it lasted a year - my whole body was trying to fight it.

'I was holding the pistol and there
was a bullet in the chamber... and when I lifted the weapon Monica Bosei
said I should not point the gun at the man in front of me. I then
pointed the pistol at his head and shot him in the back of the head.

'Monica started to run and I shot her
once in the head. Then I shot him twice in the head again. I went over
to her then and shot her twice in the head.'

He
said he then walked into a building, where he murdered six or seven
people in one room, according to a report on The Daily Telegraph.

They
begged for their lives, but he executed them. His victims were often
too scared to run, but one tried to escape by zig zagging his stride,'
the paper said.

Breivik said he couldn't shoot him in the head so he aimed at the body multiple times.

The killer then claimed he found
himself in a 'state of shock' and could only really remember ten minutes
of his further hour on the island.

Carnage: This map details the locations of Breivik's victims as he stalked them across the island of Utoya

At time, he said young people were
literally 'paralysed with fear and begging for their lives', but he
continued his rampage, first with his Glock pistol and then his rifle.

'At one stage, I shot someone and I saw his cranium burst and his brain was flowing out... I do remember that,’ he added.

During his dramatic description Breivik showed no emotion as he told of walking around the island killing dozens of people.

'I just lost control of how many
people I have been shooting. I am not concentrating really...I am barely
able to function. I have just an overview and that is why I remember
very few persons in Utoya.'

He claimed that originally he wanted to 'scare' the young people 'into the water and make them drown.'

Gunned them down: A disturbing image of Breivik published in a manifesto attributed to him that was discovered the day after his terror spree

At one point, the killer says he shouted 'you are going to die today Marxists'.

Breivik’s chilling testimony took
some 20 minutes before the senior judge called for an adjournment as
the families of victims looked on in the court.

His testimony was physically
revolting. Inside the Oslo court, a man who lost his son on the island
closed his eyes hard, squeezing them shut.

Another man to his left put a
comforting hand to his shoulder. A woman to his right clutched onto
him, resting her forehead against his arm.

Breivik said he was deliberately using 'technical' language as a way to keep his composure.

'These are gruesome acts, barbaric
acts,' he said. 'If I had tried to use a more normal language I don't
think I would have been able to talk about it at all.'

Christin Bjelland, a spokeswoman for a massacre support group, said she was 'quite upset' by Breivik's testimony.

'I'm going back to my hometown tonight
and I live by the sea, so I have arranged with my husband, he's going
to drive me out to the sea, and I'm going to take a walk there and I'm
going to scream my head off,' Bjelland said.

He had hoped his 950kg van bomb would bring the Government district building crashing down, replicating Al Qaeda’s destruction of New York’s Twin Towers on 9/11.

Although it eventually killed eight and injured 200, an initial radio report as Breivik drove away spoke of a much lower toll of damage.

He said: ‘The radio report said that just one person had died and the building was still intact and standing.

‘My plan was to bring the building down - and I believed my bomb would destroy the ministry office and kill all the inhabitants.

‘If the building had collapsed then going onto Utoya would have been unnecessary and I would have driven straight to a police station and surrendered. I had thought of this in advance.’

Destroyed: The damage caused by Breivik's bomb outside a government building in Oslo which killed eight and injured 200

It was then that he drove more than
an hour out of Oslo to Utoya island, where some 564 young people were
attending a Summer Camp organised by the youth wing of the Labour Party.

After catching a ferry from the
mainland he spent around 90 minutes killing 69 people - mainly teenagers
- before surrendering to officers from Norway’s Delta force police
team.

‘I reached my decision to go to Utoya because I felt my attack in Oslo had been a failure,’ he added.

Breivik was accused of being a ‘coward’ by a lawyer representing the families of the bereaved, but he countered by claiming ‘many people would consider me a nice person - sympathetic, who is caring and close to many friends’.

He said he could remain clinical and dispassionate while describing the massacre because ‘I think I would break down mentally if I removed the mental shields that I have built.

He added: ‘When it comes to enemies, you build up strategies to de-humanise yourself.This case is very simple. I am not a psychiatric case. I am sane. I am of sane mind.’

However he conceded that what he had done was ‘gruesome’ and he added: ‘ I cannot comprehend the suffering I have caused.

While Breivik admits the 77 killings, he has pleaded not guilty to criminal charges because he believes his victims betrayed Nowrway by embracing immigration.

Earlier,
Breivik declared that he was actually a 'nice person' who had trained
himself to stifle his emotions so he could carry out the attacks.

Breivik
said he began consciously training to cut his range of feelings five
years before the attacks, when he began to consider using violence to
alert Europeans to what he considered the loss of their culture.

'One
might say that I was quite normal until 2006 when I started training,
when I commenced de-emotionalising," he told the court. 'And many people
will describe me as a nice person or a sympathetic, caring person to
friends and anyone.'

'I've had a dehumanisation strategy towards those I considered valid targets so I could come to the point of killing them.'

He
also told how he took to the Internet to learn how to carry out a
bombing-and-shooting rampage, studying attacks by al-Qaida, Oklahoma
City bomber Timothy McVeigh and the 1993 bombing of the World Trade
Center.

If declared sane, Breivik could face a
maximum 21-year prison sentence or an alternate custody arrangement
that would keep him locked up as long as he is considered a menace to
society. If found insane, he would be committed to psychiatric care for
as long as he's considered ill.